440 Pages
by
Routledge
438 Pages
by
Routledge
440 Pages
by
Routledge
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Contemporary Editing offers journalism students a forward-looking introduction to news editing, providing instruction on traditional newsroom conventions along with a focus on emerging news platforms. This comprehensive text provides students with a strong understanding of everything an editor does, addressing essential copy editing fundamentals such as grammar and style; editorial decision... Read more
A Preface to Students
A Preface to Insturctors for the Third Edition
Part One: Approaching the Story
- Focus on Fundamentals: The Editor Within
- Focus on News Judgment: The Editor’s Attitude
- Focus on Skills and Tools: The Editor in the Newsroom
- Focus on Grammar: The Mechanics of Language
- Focus on Good Writing: Strong and Graceful Prose
- Focus on Headlines: Precision, Power and Poetry
- News Close to Home: Editing Local and Community Media
- News From Afar: Editing Nonlocal Stories
- Making the Long Story Short: Editing for Brevity and Clarity
- Working with Writers: Editing Features
- No Safety in Numbers: Checking them Twice
- Doing Justice: Ethical and Legal Issues
- An Eye for News: Editing Visuals
- Showing the Story: Editing Data Visualizations
- The Balancing Act: Designing Pages
Part Two: Inside the Story
Part Three: Beyond the Story
Biography
Cecilia Friend is Professor of Journalism at Utica College. She has been teaching journalism for more than 25 years. Before that she spent 10 years as a reporter and editor. Since, she has continued to serve as an editor in various capacities and a writing and design coach. She is the co-author of "Online Journalism Ethics: Traditions and Transitions," published in 2007.
Donald Challenger is a writer, editor and teacher who most recently served as college editor at Hamilton College. He has worked for more than 30 years in newspaper and magazine journalism and has taught journalism and writing as an adjunct professor in several programs, including Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
